The Definitive Guide to Comedy
That headline seems so salacious, doesn't it? Why wouldn't the Streamy Awards let you see this video by The Fine Bros. revealing the secrets to earning a Streamy nomination? Oh, that's right. It's because the awards ceremony buckled under the strain of technology and froze the video before it ended. …
Each year, Paul Scheer presides over one of the most raucous, madcap moments in comedy as host of the improvised Match Game parody that happens in the wee hours during the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater's Del Close Marathon. Did that prepare Scheer for the mess that was last night's Streamy …
The last time we remember Holly Montag making news in a comedy club, Montag and her friend were getting kicked out of The Laugh Factory last July and drunk heckling Chris Franjola. Nine months later, the incident apparently has given birth to Montag's idea of a career in stand-up comedy. …
If you're lucky, every once in a while, you get to experience one of your favorite TV shows as an audience member, from inside the belly of the beast — or if you're talking about last night's SNL, inside the belly of the Bieber. Now. I was teased for using …
This is the world we live in now. With outsiders uploading live TV video onto their own sites with their own players, NBC must have decided, if they can't beat them, join them. Because tonight's Saturday Night Live sketch featuring Tina Fey spoofing Sarah Palin (and also siding with Team …
The April Fool's Day announcement that the Lakeshore Theater in Chicago undoubtedly caught a lot of people by surprise. My only experience with the Lakeshore happened last June when I attended the Just For Laughs Chicago festival — the theater boasted not only some of the best and most eclectic …
When I saw Michael Kosta in Aspen three years ago, he helped redefine the way I look at high-schoolers. Kosta also had this recurring callback wherein he high-fives the crowd. Last night he performed on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and the high-five is more like a mid-five now. …
If you see a comedy nerd acting extra weird today, it's because they're slowly figuring out the news that Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre fixture Chris Gethard reported for work today as the new lead of the untitled Gary Sanchez Productions Comedy Central series that also features Horatio Sanz and Chris …
Jimmy Fallon and his NBC crew teased that this would be worth watching, and it totally was, for a variety of reasons in addition to the one you're thinking of. For one thing, this is a nine-minute filmed musical production on a late-night talk show, that flew in almost all …
There are too many people who are so fragmented about their lives, not just "red state" "blue state" stuff, but with our contemporary society making it so easy for you to fragment, compartmentalize and otherwise isolate everything you digest in your daily life. That's sadly just as true for comedy, …